The music company also said that the Motown Records label will now make use of Island Def Jam’s sales, marketing and distribution services. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor NEW YORK – Universal ...

When the band QWANQWA takes the stage of the BU Global Music Festival on Saturday, Sept. 17, it’ll be making its Boston debut — as are five of the other groups playing the free event. But if the ...

Addis Ababa, September 5, 2025 (ENA) -- Ethiopian artists presented the famous Ethiopian New Year cultural song “Abeb Ayosh” at the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa today in connection with the upcoming ...

Kay Kaufman Shelemay received fellowships and grants for the research and publication process for this book from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial ...

Admas draws from and rearranges “golden era” Ethiopian music with then-fairly-new synthesizer and drum-machine rhythms. Steve Kiviat Admas. From left, clockwise: Abegasu Shiota, Henock Temesgen, ...

Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience. Last month in London, the 82-year-old pioneer, who has done much to bring his blend of musical ...

Falcetto was a promoter of music when he first heard Ethiopian music in 1984. As he explained when I met him, “A friend of mine was a stage manager for a theatre troupe who had been touring Africa and ...

Almost anyone who has made aliyah has endured a challenging acclimatization process. That said, each and every oleh/olah has been through his or her own personal rites of passage, part informed by his ...